Snoop Dogg Quotes

I want to reach the people. This music is the people's music. It's music for your brain, for your heart, for your soul. That is what we always go to achieve. Soul united.

I'm a rapper but I'm a human being.

When I started emceein', you had 500 maybe 1000 rappers in the whole world. Now there's 1.000.000, nahmean?

Eminem is like the godfather of the hip-hop game.

By the time it came to the 90s, the late 90s, being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having the concept of the best rapper equals the best businessman.

Cause there's nothing, there's nothing you can teach me That I can't learn from Mr. Hathaway.

It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

I am the beast, Feed me rappers or feed me beats

Heart of a solider with a brain to teach your whole nation.

I always try to write about something that's actually happened or it doesn't always have to have happened to me, but it has to have happened at some point. So every single lyric that you hear comes from some kind of story that I've come across in my life. I like to think that that maybe helps me mean it a bit more and if you don't mean it, it ceases to be soul music.

I'm also working on another independent film called Roxanne, Roxanne, about Roxanne Shante, who was one of the first African American battle rappers from Brooklyn. It is produced by Forest Whitaker and Pharrell [williams], so I'm really in great hands.

My father is a marvelous mentor, and if you're going to have a mentor, the ones that work best let you make your own mistakes. You're ready to do your own thing and just at that moment of being unbridled, if somebody's trying to manage you too tightly, it's going to be tough - particularly if that person's got the same last name.

When I was a kid if you didn't have "Lil" in front of your name, you were trash.

It's hard being a white rapper sometimes! When that happens you just need to battle through.

Whiz Galliano whip whip the Armani In the drip drip lick lick like a lolly

All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.

Last name 'Ever', first name 'Greatest'

Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you. I'ma let you finish. But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!

That's definitely my goal, and always has been through the Universal Zulu Nation, is to show that music breaks down all that foolishness and can bring all types of people together, especially when you can mix it and shape it. That's the beauty of sampling: taking the old sound and recreating it and making something new, or bringing back the old sounds, mixed with some heavy grooves and beats, so people can remember. "Oh, I remember that, back in the day."

I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old -- he's a misguided 40-year-old person.

I wouldn't even say that I'm a rapper. I'd say I'm more of a messenger.

I am Nicki Minaj, I mack them dudes up Back coupes up & chunk the deuce up

Curtis Curtis jackson..he's the fakest thug I ever did see

This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. You have to be on deck all the time, but you do not have the time to do the album. It is an energy, it must be present in everyday life.